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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 54e66c9 | Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 44b7362 | Love is the light that casts no shadow. | Elizabeth Lowell | ||
| 571bbfe | Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course. It is not the brightest who succeed. If it were, Chris Langan would be up there with Einstein. Nor is success simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf. It is, rather, a gift. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities--and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| da34eed | Each of us has his or her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2cd7559 | All the outliers we've looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don't seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| cf3a730 | when you remove time," de becker says, "you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction" | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9230da9 | The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 64d5d9b | We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we're well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| dbf9674 | We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| ec5640b | Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)" | humor improvisation inspirational motivational nonfiction science | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 521f5b1 | It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. --Frederick Douglass | Timber Hawkeye | ||
| 32d43f0 | Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history. He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American.. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| dd11fc5 | He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will. | surrender-to-me universe | Shayla Black | |
| e87a5e9 | What do you mean 'lower myself'? That's the only thing I've ever been. Just a simple human who couldn't save a little girl. Not even with alchemy. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 69ba245 | My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place. | Susan Hill | ||
| a19b2f8 | I had always known in my heart that the experience would never leave me, that it was now woven into my very fibers, an inextricable part of my past, but I had hoped never to have to recollect it, consciously, and in full, ever again. Like an old wound, it gave off a faint twinge now and again, but less and less often, less and less painfully, as the years went on and my happiness, sanity and equilibrium were assured. Of late, it had been li.. | Susan Hill | ||
| c84bab1 | My life only has a meaning insofar as I lack one: oh, but let me be mad! Make something of all this he who is able to, understand it he who is dying, and there the living self is, knowing not why, its teeth chattering in the lashing wind: the immensity, the night engulfs it and, all on purpose, that living self is there just in order ... 'not to know'. But as for GOD? What have you got to say, Monsieur Rhetorician? And you, Monsieur Godfear.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| eada9e1 | Do we really lack the delicacy to let God die quietly, on his own, like a dog? | Nick Land | ||
| 81c1098 | But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier. | David Lubar | ||
| edc394d | Fear knocked at the door, Faith went to answer it, and no one was there. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 876a89a | She may not have believed in God, but I'm pretty certain God believed in her. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 6f35fe1 | Familiar words chanted through his mind, demanding he speak them. He tried to bite his tongue. Now was hardly the time, and she'd likely laugh. Once spoken, the words would bind him to her for the rest of his life, even if she refused him, which was likely. And once she did, he could never touch another... not that he'd want to, since he hadn't almost from the moment he clapped eyes on her. Unless... what if she spoke the Binding? Whatever .. | Shayla Black | ||
| 9ff7652 | As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you dreams that will capture your life, dreams so spectacular and bright you can know no strife. I wish for you my child, a dream as brilliant as sunrise, and warm as it's gentle rays. But most of all precious one, I dream for you, of many peaceful days. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 61800f3 | His soul exploded with the tip of his cock, spewing out an emotion, a need, a compulsive hunger as thick, hot and life-giving as the semen winging its way to her fertile, hungry womb. | winged-semen | Lora Leigh | |
| c2c98c2 | Aw, come on, it's just hot as hell there and my AC doesn't even make a dent. Let's try for something cooler." ~ Loki ~" | Lora Leigh | ||
| 838be19 | For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to .. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 11f59a5 | Don't just try to "make it" through the day. Celebrate the day. Say, "This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it" (see Psalm 118:24). Don't dread the day; attack the day. Know what you want to accomplish today and go for it." | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 8fde1a4 | For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. PROVERBS 23:7 | Joyce Meyer | ||
| b02611b | There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 5514a34 | I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns. . . my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names. | dance girls stereotypes | Melissa Kantor | |
| e5a8c3d | Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties. | freedom groups independence-fascism individualism society team-spirit | Muriel Spark | |
| 5f67f23 | Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws. The ever-sleepless sea in its bed, crying out "how long?" to Time; million-formed and never motionless flame; the contemplation of these .. | books inspirational quotes rational religion | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 61012f7 | There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside yo. --Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road (NOT Maya Angelou, NOT I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| afe0431 | I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself. | Anne Lamott | ||
| dad01d9 | We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 24d14ec | Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c38b4d2 | When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 658210f | And what do you do in the face of this powerlessness? As a parent?" "You get to be obsessed and angry," Tom said. "And they get to be the age they are, and act like teenagers if they want to. There is a zero-percent chance you will change them. So we breathe in, and out, talk to friends, as needed. We show up, wear clean underwear, say hello to strangers. We plant bulbs, and pick up litter, knowing there will be more in twenty minutes. We p.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| e33702c | My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. There was sanctuary in a library, there is sanctuary now, from the war, from the storms of our family and o.. | exploration libraries sacred-spaces sanctuary | Anne Lamott | |
| b897956 | We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out. | Anne Lamott | ||
| ff81afd | It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b97d61b | A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. | writing | Anne Lamott | |
| adbe41e | Peg came over with dinner tonight and told me about this dumb schmaltzy poem she heard someone read at an AA meeting. It got me thinking. It was about how while we are on earth, our limitations are such that we can only see the underside of the tapestry that God is weaving. God sees the topside, the whole evolving portrait and its amazing beauty, and uses us as the pieces of thread to weave the picture. We see the glorious colors and sh.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 622039b | I do not at all understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. | Anne Lamott |